Happy New Year. Looking forward to some interesting reviews in 2018. I post mine on Thursdays and (sometimes) Mondays when I need to catch up. I might have some WW1 books this year that might interest you and around 50% of my non-Fiction is British & European history so I'm sure that'll interest you. Have a good year ahead!

I have been lurking around your blog this AM, I think we have some interests in common! I am looking for some good WWI books - especially anything about Gavrilo Princip, but there simply is not much. Most of the books I have looked at about WWI don't even mentioned his name. I look forward to your recommendations and reviews, Happy New Year!

My 'plan' - yeah, right - was to follow WW1 through from 2014-2018 reading about the corresponding year 1914-1918 so this year I'd be reading how the war ended. Needless to say that didn't happen. What I'm going to *try* to do this year is 'bookend' the war by reading about how it started and the consequences afterwards.

My latest idea is what I call my Triple Reads where I read 3 books in (fairly) quick succession on a related subject. My 3 about the start of WW1 have 2 in there about the assassination. If you haven't come across them already they are:

The Assassination of the Archduke - Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans

The Trigger - The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip: The Assassin who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher.

The third book is a general history of the aftermath of that event across Europe in July 1914.